Get another Safety Guy
‘So I’ve been thinking about this shot (above) for 15 years and finally I had a chance to do it. So I go to the safety guy and I go, here’s what I’m gonna do. Safety guy goes, ‘you can’t do that.’
So I get another safety guy…’ -Tom Cruise (as told by Matt Damon)
Bad art, politics, and Training
Will copying the workouts of our fitness heroes and get as strong as they are?
Another Fit approved Holiday gift guide
It’s that time of year again. That time where you ask yourself, ‘what am I going to buy for the fitness freak in my life?’
Lucky for you I’ve got some ideas. But I have to ask…
How much do you love this fitness freak?
If I were starting from Scratch
“It felt like I stepped all the way back to square one. It got me thinking… if I were actually starting from scratch what would I do?”
Beauty defined
Want to be inspirational? Keep showing up.
Tools not Schools
You have to join their school, buy their stuff, Subscribe to their plan, program, coaching, website. That’s basically just commerce. They all have some good insights, recipes, workouts, breakthroughs but inevitably there isn’t a one size fits all system.
Sitting and smoking…
This phrase (Doc Levine’s) made us reevaluate sitting. According to Kelly Starret we should set our chairs at a height where “you can really use your legs to scoot powerfully back and forth” if you’re in an adjustable. Additionally we should sit upright, not leaning back “so you can turn on more musculature and build greater stability.”
How to Assess and Train Balance
I woke up sweating. 4 am. I sat up, stared out the window and the room swirled. Something was amiss.
My balance was gone. Any time I turned left I felt I was going to crash.
Can you multi task fitness?
Can you multi task fitness? No. Multi tasking is impossible. Only 2.5% of people can actually do it per this passage from over at the Cleveland Clinic: We’re really wired to be monotaskers, meaning that our brains can only focus on one task at a time, says neuropsychologist Cynthia Kubu, PhD. “When we think we’re […]
How to beat the Heat
It’s hot. Damn Hot. Real Hot. 4th of July weekend was THE HOTTEST weekend recorded. Ever. What can we do to beat the heat? We have AC, Central Air, wicking clothing and we’re still dropping like flies. Western Europe saw some 20,000 deaths in a recent unrelenting heat wave. It could happen here. And the heat will wreak havoc on your workouts too.